Leyda, Jay. Kino A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. 3rd ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983. (A classic study, although it focuses mainly on the Russian and Soviet film industries up to late 1940s.)

Roth-Ey, Kristin. Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.

Shaw, Tony, and Denise J. Youngblood. Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010.